Village of Hope: March 2009

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

the crime in Baja.

Good day
this is an article written about the crime in Baja, and how it is affecting the ministries and its brought some reality to it, thought it was good.

http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Apr09/Art_Apr09_01.html

We pray God blesses you, your family and ministry, in all areas.

remember that ministry is not just if you have a title in church, but ministry is our life showing Jesus. =)

Saturday, March 21, 2009

God is faithful

As I was watching today the Village of Hope video, I was reminded of something that is easy to forget, especially nowadays.

Back in September, there was a fire in one of the villages that damaged around 300 people, remember this people hardly have anything and with this fire they lost the few things they had. Tough life, eh? It was hard to understand at the moment why God would bring such a disaster on such unfortunate people, but God knows best, and he provided in such an amazing way, from having nothing to offer this people, within 3 days we had almost $10,000 dlls to feed the 300 for three weeks, we were able to provide for matresses, clothes, blankets, brand new stoves, propaine tanks and the necesary for this people.

This is nothing we could have done on our strenghts, nothing we could've ever dream of providing but again this is not our project, this is God's, coming out of the God's heart, so who can be against us?

Today's economy is making it harder for this project, but just as he provided that time in september, just as he has been providing, he will continue, and this is what I was reminded of.

HE IS FAITHFUL.

Yadi.

Monday, March 9, 2009

PICTURES! =)

Thursday, March 5, 2009

some pictures

here are some pictures I uploaded on Facebook that I just cant upload here, have a look at them!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=93174&id=566583592&l=ddbe1

Yadi.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Multipurpose building as of 3/1/09

God is awesome!

food and clothes!

Yadi Escobar- Hello all!

we had a very good day today, sunday march 1st, we've been having sunday services at the village since the year started. it's been really awesome! we had a regular attendance of 150 people sometimes 300! today we went to church there, had sometime to play with the kids, and gave them food and clothes donated from churches and people across California. we want to thank those supporting this vision, know that you can do a lot! this people have great needs and anything you could do to help will be welcome. specially now that the jobs are decreasing and A LOT of people are without a job. Two couples from L.A. came last weekend, they gathered donations (clothes, food, toys, etc) part of that we gave last weekend with them, Marguerite and Wayne sonoda and Ericka and George, and the rest we gave today. this people were greatly blessed by this. that same weekend as we were leaving the village a girl approached me and asked me if we had ANYTHING to eat, her family had nothing to eat that night and their boss wouldnt pay them because there is not a lot of work. I know today's economy is real bad, but trust me, we still can give. here are some pictures of today's service. Blessings.

Campo Esperanza ... Village of Hope

the beginning of Village of Hope, by Sara J. Escobar

As I graduated from Rio Grande Bible Institute I went back home to help the church that my dad leaded. I heard about the migrant camps from the organization I was working with at that point, YWAM, and as soon as I saw the need, God put a big burden in my heart. A lady from our church, sister Teresa, had also heard of these migrants camps, and talking about it, we both realized that God wanted to us to go and do something for them.

Sister Teresa and I started going to these camps 3 times a week. We would prepare school and Bible lessons for them. Their Spanish was very poor so we started teaching them Spanish with pictures and draws. They would laugh with some hard Spanish words.
They were very reserved and quite. But they were open and excited to learn. I believe we were the first ones that starting teaching them about Jesus, reading and writing. We would sit them in blue tarps and hand them their very first notebooks and pencils. We went to 2 different camps and we had from 12 kids in the smallest camp to 35 kids and the biggest ones. We also gave them toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap and face lotions. We would wash their little faces, dry them, and put face lotion. They loved us to do it for them. We told them they need to do it every day and that they needed to be clean every time we came. When they would see us coming they would run to a bucket of water and wash their faces. They will come running to greet us with their wet and damp hair. They were learning the importance on hygiene too.
Then my mom and I were left alone in the mission field. My mom and I spoke of the need of a place to give them education and care. We couldn’t just keep bringing clothes and food and leave them in the situation they lived. It was the beginning of a dream of hope for the mixteco culture. The communities started to trust, After 3 years of work I left to work with New Life community Church and my mom continued with the vision and continued praying until God answered. bringing the Pastor, and the whole church and partners to grasp the vision. Now this vision is becoming a reality, a reality that only God couldve done. I give Him the honour, the praise and the Glory for what He's doing in the Village of Hope and I cannot wait to see what He has in store for that ministry and that people!